Good Afternoon!
Today in class the students had various centers to go to. Each center related back to the novel they are reading in class. The first center was at The Big Idea board. Students were asked to answer the question “How would you feel if you lived in a society that had a lot of rules and forced you to do something you did not want to do? Explain why you would feel this way.”
The second center was at the word wall. Each novel has their own word wall at this point. The title of the Divergent word wall is “All The Words You know” and the background is blue. The Giver word wall is titled “All The Words I’ve Received” and the background is pink. I have attached pictures to this post for study purposes. I ran out of velcro for the word wall and therefore, not all of the Divergent words are up on the actual wall yet. The additional pictures taken with the desk as a background is for Divergent students. I do NOT expect Giver students to know Divergent words and vice versa. vocabtest.com has been updated to reflect these new words. The Divergent test is called Divergent Chapters 1-5. The Giver test is called The Giver Chapters 1-3. The username is trayloa.
The third station asked students to identify various kinds of figurative language from their novel.
The fourth station required for students to analyze characters from their novel.
The fifth and final station consists of guided questions the students were asked to complete based upon the chapters they just read.
As long as students completed the activity at each station, they had not homework. If something was not finished in class, they were asked to complete it for homework. No reading was assigned.
Journal Topics:
Divergent: Does refusing to act make someone a coward? Why or why not?
The Giver: Now that we know what being released is, how do you feel about this? Why do you think people in Jonas’s society allow this to go on?
Have a great evening!
The Giver
Big Idea Board
Divergent One
Divergent Two
Divergent Three